The Center for Curatorial Studies Library is a non-circulating collection of 40,000 titles focusing on post-1960’s contemporary art, curatorial practice, exhibition histories, theory and criticism. The CCS Library's Special Collections includes important holdings of historic and out-of-print artist produced periodicals, limited edition, rare and signed exhibition catalogues and contemporary art publications, as well as an extensive collection of artists’ books. The CCS Archives serve as the institutional repository for the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, and as a collecting repository which actively acquires, preserves, and provides access to a wide range of primary materials documenting the history of the contemporary visual arts and the institutions and practices of exhibition-making since the 1960s.